| Ashtabula County Joint Vocational School District |
| Bylaws & Policies |
4432 - SICK LEAVE
The Board of Education recognizes its statutory duty to pay employees of this District in full for days on which they are absent from work for reasons of personal disability or pregnancy and illness, injury, or death in the employee's immediate family.
All employees of the District eligible for sick leave not otherwise covered by the terms of a negotiated agreement shall receive fifteen (15) such sick leave days annually at the rate of one and one-quarter (1 1/4) a month. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative up to 350 days. Regular part-time employees shall be entitled to sick leave in proportion to the time actually worked.
The Board shall accept by transfer the accumulated sick leave up to 350 days which any new employee has acquired in another position of public service shall have been within the last ten (10) years.
New employees shall be credited with five (5) days sick leave in advance which shall be part of the fifteen (15) days that can be accumulated for the year.
| A. | Use of Sick Leave - Sick leave may be used for the following purposes and must have the approval of the Superintendent: |
| 1. | For absence of the employee due to personal illness, injury, pregnancy, or exposure to a communicable disease which could be communicated to other employees or to students. | ||
| 2. | For absence of the employee due to illness or injury of someone in the employee's immediate family. In this section, the employee's immediate family is defined to mean a member of the immediate family of the employee residing in the home of said employee and shall also include the employee's parents, brother, sister, son or daughter, grandfather and grandmother. | ||
| 3. | For absence due to death in the immediate family of an employee. In this section, the immediate family of an employee is defined to mean the father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, husband, wife, grandmother, grandfather, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, and any other relative of the employee as approved by the Superintendent. |
| B. | Verification of Sick Leave - An employee requesting use of sick leave shall furnish a written signed statement to justify the use of sick leave by completing a sick leave form. | |
| The filing, by an employee, of any willfully false statement concerning the cause or duration of an absence shall be considered by the Board as grounds for suspension or dismissal. | ||
| C. | Eligibility for Sick Leave - A sick leave of absence shall commence when the employee reports the absence. | |
| D. | Records of Sick Leave - The personnel records of this District shall show the attendance of each employee, and such days as that employee may be absent shall be recorded with the reason for such absence noted. A record shall be made of the unused sick leave days accumulated by each employee. |
Revised 6/16/08